Improvement in paper-collars



tuitd ,Staten @wat @imita lDAVID FRANCIS SMITH, OF SULLIVAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Lette-rs Patent No. 101,932, dated April 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-COLLARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Paper Collars, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to paper collars, and consists in making them in two equal parts or halves, so that they may not only be readily attached to the shirt, but, when att-ached, fit neatly, and also so that they may be carried in an ordinary pocket-case about the person.

In the drawings- Figures l and 2 are plan views of the two parts or halves forming my collar;

Figure 3 represents the same parts united, and the Acollar proper turned down or over; and

Figure 4 represents an ordinary pocket-case'for carrying my collars.

As is well known, travelers, in making short jonrneys, often find it very desirable to carry a few collars outside of their trunks or traveling-bags, for any sudden or immediate use, but find the present method of making and packing them very inconvenient for the purpose. The most convenient place of carrying them would be in a case that could be placed in a suitable pocket about tlie'person; but, as the collars are made entire, and packed in round or square boxes, they caunot well be carried in this way.

'lo produce a collar that may be placed in a pocketcase, and at the same time forni a neatly-hitting one, is the object of my invention.

I construct my collar, A, in two equal parts or halves, B and C, as shown in figs. 1, 2, and 3.

lhe neck-bands ot' these parts are made so as to lap over each other where they unite, and are attached to the back of the collar of the shirt, and are each provided with a button-hole, a, for the purpose of such attachment, while the collar proper, or that portion of it that is designed to extend above the neck-tic, or to be turned over the same, is formed at the rear end of' l each of the parts, as clearly shown in the same figures, so as not to extend quite to the end of the baud, but also so as to form an angle with it.

When the parts are thus constructed and united, and the collar proper turned over, the whole will appear-as clearly shown in fig: 3; and, when connected to the shirt, and fastened about the neck, it will be at once perceived that the manner in which the parts are connected must render thecollar at once smooth and easyfitting, as each part of the collar can yield to the motion of the'neck independent of the other, and the turned port-ion can adapt itself to different thicknesses of ties.

The parts are made perfectly flat, and cau therefore be laid together like sheets of paper, and, being in parts, can be placed in an ordinarysized packet-case, D, as shown in fig. 4, so as to be conveniently carried about the person, clean, and ready for use at anymoment- Having thus described my invention,

A paper collar, `constructed of two equal parts or halves, each provided with overlapping ends and button-holes, in the manner substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

Y DAVID FRANCIS SMITH.

Witnesses:

Cuirs. MASON, LEWIS H. SMITH. 

